can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? >> from pie to eggs to shoes. >> look at that, that is quick. >> politicians show they can dish it out and they can take it. >> he didn't think, he just went bap. >> >> from a slap in the face -- >> i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> -- to chewing over a piece of legislation. >> there are people pulling her hair, trying to get her to spit it out. it is unbelievable. >> lawmakers engaged in all-out brawling. >> nothing is under control. you know, just violence. just rage. >> and which of these slip-ups gets your vote for most embarrassing? >> uh-oh. you hate it when that happens.

♪ what is your name >> politicians like you've never seen them before. "caught on camera -- politics gone wild." hello. i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." once upon a time, politicians were revered. after all, they have the ability to pass bills, create laws and govern entire countries, but sometimes they're the subject of ridicule. taunted, heckled and harassed by the public, under constant fire from their opponents and even their own parties. this hour is all about what happens when politicians are pushed too far. >> i think it was lyndon baines johnson, the u.s. president who said, if you want a friend in politics, get a dog. politics is all about adversity, whether it's psychological or sometimes even physical.

>> in britain, this is just how the public showed their disdain. physically. politicians are routinely subjected to egging, custard-throwing, flour-pelting, and paint-hurtling. >> we in britain have been brought up on pantomime in which chucking custard pies is seen as perfectly harmless fun. a way of expressing irritation, anger. it's become a quite common practice to show things that are colored, that will cling, liquid or flour or whatever, because that looks good on telly. >> in the face of indignity, politicians are trained to stay calm, simply to brush it off and walk away, but even they can be egged on to the breaking point. >> it's probably dumb, but i love it when the politicians fight back and attack their attackers. >> no one does this better than deputy prime minister john prescott in 2001, taking one for england right on the cheek.

>> the guy who threw the egg was half his age, for a start, and was very close and might have got it in his eye and might have actually injured him. >> there was a lot of jostling and abuse. i felt a bang on the back of my head. >> unluckily for his attacker, mr. prescott had trained as a boxer in his youth. >> he didn't think. he just went bap. >> i immediately responded to defend myself, and that's how it happened. >> it's one thing if someone throws something at you. it's another if someone attempts to punch you and then you punch them back. >> john prescott actually did himself quite a lot of good by his instant angry reaction to the guy who threw the egg. and i think the rest of the nation said, good for you, chum, that's absolutely right. this guy is going to behave with disrespect, you sorted him. >> including, it seems, the prime minister himself, who applauds his deputy during a press conference. >> he has got very, very great strengths.

not least in his left arm. >> the dazed and bruised protester is taken away in cuffs and spends several hours in police custody before being released. neither man is charged. >> who are you going to charge? and what are you going to charge them with? that was the middle of an election campaign as well. tempers ran a little high. >> after all, just another day in british politics. >> of course, i regret the incident. who would want to be in that? but why should we be subjected to that kind of protest? i think that's wrong. >> don't think the fun and games is just for the british. during the 2003 total recall election in california, one protester takes arnie's name a little too seriously and schwarzeneggs him on the shoulder. >> well, this is an effort to make somebody look foolish and politicians sometimes don't need any extra help, but that is the purpose. when an egg splatters on somebody's coat, it's great video. >> as if nothing happened, schwarzenegger peels off his

jacket, continues to glad-hand with the crowd and goes on to give his speech as planned. >> i think it's all in the reaction. you learn a lot about the politician. schwarzenegger had a great line later. >> this guy owes me bacon now. i mean, there's no two ways about it. because i mean you just can't have eggs without bacon. but this is just all part of the free speech. >> another silent but somewhat tastier attack happens in the netherlands in 2000. during a press conference on the hotly contested kyoto agreement, i'm alex witt, we have breaking news to share. we are going to take you to houston, texas, where the sheriff of the county will hold a news conference with regard to the sheriff deputy killed at a local gas station. news conference getting underway any second now. some of the details you may not know yet.

there was a deputy sheriff darren goforth and 47 years old and leaving behind a wife and two children. they are assembling. the friday shooting happening around 8:30 p.m. at a chevron near cypress if you are familiar with the area. there is a person of interest who was you will untearily taken into custody as part of the investigation. and we say custody, but we are not defining who they are or the relationship to the investigation but he was taken in for questioning. and we aren't certain it is a he. it could be a she. but a person of interest was taken in. it appears to be intentionally and let's listen into the prepared statement. >> we would like to give you a live stream.

>> good afternoon. today the harris county sheriff's office mourns the loss of one of our own, deputy darren go forth was struck down while innocently pumping gas at west road in northwest harris county yesterday evening. we are reaching out to the community for assistance in capturing the violent individual responsible for the senseless death of the deputy go forth. from video retrieved from the location we know that other individuals drove up to the service station while this incident was going on. we asked them to come forthwith information that will assist us in this investigation. i plead today for the public's assistance in our efforts to bring the suspect to justice he so rightfully deserved. any witnesses to the event or persons with information about the suspect are asked to come forward and assist investigators in our efforts. we respectfully ask the media to respect the privacy of the family during this time of

tragic loss. the harris county sheriff's office and the houston law enforcement grieve the loss of our forge -- law enforcement officer. we heard a number of media outlets are reaching out directly to the family at home. we would ask that they respect their privaciy and give them their opportunity to grieve. the community outpouring of love, thoughts and prayers are still needed as we come to grips with the gravity of this tragedy. we've been overwhelmed by support from the community. people we've never met, don't know and may never see again to offer sub stinnance, food, water and support for the deputies that continue to protect our community. i'll ask our district attorney devon anderson for comments. >> thanks, sheriff. >> the harris count district

attorney's office extends its condolences to the go forth family and we'll continue to work until the person is brought to justice. i echo the sheriff's request to please come forward if you have any information. it is time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement. there are a few bad apples in every profession. that does not mean there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement. the vast majority of officers are there to do the right thing, are there because they care about their community and want to make it a safer place. what happened last night is an assault on the very fabric of society. it is not anything that we can tolerate. it is time to come forward and support law enforcement and condemn this atrocious act. so please come forward if you

have any information. we need to bring this killer to justice. at this time, rick heartily with the 100 club would like to say a few words. >> thank you, devon. on behalf of the 30,000 members of the 100 club we would like the community to know that we are reaching out to help the go forth family. as soon as it is logistically feasible we will bring a $20,000 check to the family to help with immediate needs and when the time is right, we will be there to do a needs assessment to determine all of the financial needs of that family. all too often when we have tragedies like this, we see youngsters. and this case is no different. we have 5 and 12-year-old children that are left behind. those 30,000 members of the 100 club will make sure that the youngsters have an opportunity to go to the college of their choice when the time is

appropriate. i would like to also just add, if the sheriff so needs it, that crimestoppers and the 100 club have partnered together to double the reward that will bring about the needed information to solve this case. we're prepared to step forward when that information from the sheriff is brought to our attention to double the reward to $10,000 if needed. sheriff. >> thank you, rick. thank you, d.a. as you can see we're surrounded by the local law enforcement and supported by state and federal agencies as well. this is an issue that strikes at the heart of law enforcement and the criminal justice community. i doubt there are any resources that will be left unapplied. no stone unturned. i will tell you that we have recovered some evidence. we do have video from the scene. so this is an ongoing investigation but one we

absolutely want to do right. we are supported by the entire justice community and in our efforts to make sure this individual is brought to the justice they so richly reserve. we are talking to people, we do have some information but as the investigation proceeds we will provide information as available. but we ask that you please respect the family's opportunity for grief and to give them time. i will echo also what the d.a. mentioned as some of the danger national rhetoric that is out there today. our system of justice absolutely requires law enforcement be present to protect our community. so at any point if the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we have heard black lives matter, all lives matter. and cop's lives matter too. so why bent we drop the qualifier and say all lives

matter and take that to the bank. thank you for your attendance. >> sheriff, what is the motive? [ inaudible ]. >> the working motive for this at this point is absolutely madness. we have not found any provocation or motivation that we can put our finger on, so it is all speculation at this point. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> absolutely. at this point, his only target is because he was wearing a uniform. it is unfortunate there are not civilian occupations that you can point to where you get shot because of the clothes you wear. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> no we are not taken anybody into custody. and we are not jumping to conclusions. we wan to take the steps in the proper order and follow the evidence to a logical, legal and proper conclusion. >> and can you tell us whether the deputy was by himself. we heard about a woman with him at the time? do you have any information on that?

>> as far as i know, the deputy was by himself. simply walking back to his car, video demonstrates that. >> any new descriptions, of vehicle or the suspect? >> we had a description of a red pickup and other than what has been shown already, nothing new on that. >> that still holds? >> yes. >> any connection to the incendiary comments, the comments made in terms of motivating this attack or are you requesting people from the groups about that? >> not at this point. we always follow that rhetoric and make sure that we kind of check the temperature or climate and make sure there aren't specific motivations but as i mentioned earlier, we won't leave any stone unturned and until we know with absolutely certainty what the motivation is, it is all speculation. >> sheriff, are you taking additional steps with your deputies to ensure their safety or policy or anything like that. >> i think the logical sense is that all law enforcement will take extra precaution in being

alert and aware of your surroundings. we'll tell our folks to make sure, especially at night, they are aware and make sure they back each other up and make sure that they run in teams. i think law enforcement are doing that across the country. any time you have a clearly unprovoked attack, then you have to make sure you protect yourself. >> sheriff, prior to the shooting. >> he had an investigative minor accidents and folks involved in that and they have been excluded from suspicion and have you talked to them. >> i can't say that. all i know is there was a separation in time from the time he finished the accident until he got gas so it doesn't look at the outset they are involved. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> just through the vehicle, that is all. >> you have confirmed that is actually the truck. >> no, we have not. >> sheriff, is there any indication that there was anything other than a lone

gunman. >> no. that is all we know, that it is a lone gunman. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> well, as you can imagine, the impact, this is the kind of thing that drives you right down to your soul. it strikes at the heart of who we are at peace officers. our job is to carry the badge and gun and protect everybody else and now we have to fall back and regroup and take care of one of our own. so this hits us right in the heart. it is not an incident where an individual was provoked by a confrontation by an officer. this is a cold blooded persecution. how do you address that. it causes you to doubt humanity at large. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> i don't know who mr. mileston is. we'll put out a statement later. >> any other information will come directly from us. >> all right, everyone. that was the harris count

sheriff ron hickman talking in a passionate way and preceded with the district attorney talking with an equally passionate tone about how this kind of senseless mad, shooting down of police officers has got to come to an end. this is a community and country where law enforcement must apply and we need it to get through our daily lives. i want to bring in jim cavanaugh, msnbc analyst and special agent in charge and when you talk about the absolute madness here, it appears to be an execution style killing and that was the nomenclature used by the harris county sheriff there. this is someone who was walking back to his car from the convenience store, part of a gas station, shot in the back multiple times and then upon falling to the ground, jim, was then shot again. so is there any reason to believe this was just some random something or does this look specifically targeted? >> well, it is ice cold blooded

murder. whether it was just because he was a deputy or because this person might have say prior arrest from some other officer or could have been in prison, could hate all police. who knows. it could be specifically at that deputy. we've had those cases as well. and you remember, alex, it wasn't that long ago when we saw a pennsylvania state trooper walking out of the barracks assassinated and we had a big manhunt in the woods up there. so this is an assassination of a uniformed law enforcement officer and the killers at large -- that is the takeaway from the press conference, the killer is still at large. >> we are talking about someone who came in voluntarily, a person of interest. granted i know this is speculation but the sheriff did say there were others that came in and on the view of the camera, the surveillance camera there at the gas station. so a person of interest, can that be applied, that term applied to someone who might be

awitness -- a witness or is there more applied to it. >> there can just be someone they want to question. they did not have the vehicle -- the red ford pickup said was not the vehicle. so it could have been reporting someone with a like vehicle nearby. that is what happens in the big investigations. a lot of leads turn up. detectives have to run them out. it looks like it is something but it is not something. they do not have the killer in custody or identified or they would put out his real picture and name. so this is a critical juncture for harris county and the houston metropolitan area if this assassin is at large and officers have to be on guard and i'm sure with the team they've got they will root this out. but i do agree, they need to ramp the reward up and break on the leads and other cameras from other businesses that might grab a tag. normally in a case like this, we would be diving through every ford ranger maroon fleet side

truck in the county if there was 10,000 and there won't be that many and we'll track down every single one if we have to. and that is why we need the forward state and texas rangers and fbi, they need to all be there. >> all of them working to the. absolutely. we'll stay on top of this story. bringing you the latest developments on statimsnbc. we'll be back after this. really? that worked? american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of membership is here. they don't worry if something's possible. they just do it. at sears optical, we're committed to bringing them eyewear that works as hard as they do. right now, buy one pair and get another free.

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in some countries the nation as aassembly with look like a boxing rink. >> politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations. >> the taiwanese parliament

experienced some kind of episode of disruption in almost every session. over every option to prevent bills from being passed. literally. >> the craziest moment to me was definitely not a fight but this moment where one of the legislators, a woman, gets up in front of the legislature, grabs the paper away from the person who's holding it and eats it. so we can't vote on this bill because it's in her mouth and she's chewed it up, and there are people pulling her hair, trying to get her to spit it out. i mean, it was unbelievable. >> lately the speaker of the house has gotten smart, reading the proposals himself at the podium. but never fear, some taiwanese lawmakers have found a way around that one, too. >> he didn't have that podium for very long.

either they knew what he was going to say or they didn't like what he said. >> another way to slow down the process is to occupy the speaker's desk because the speaker has to be behind his desk using his microphone in order to conduct the business of the chamber. so if you can push the speaker out of the way and take over his desk, then you can also stop the process from happening. >> tackling the speaker also proves effective. >> oh, a well-executed running tackle here by an older fellow. he could play football. >> staging protests inside parliament is another successful tactic. >> one of the most interesting things about these legislative brawls is that they're usually not spontaneous. at least not in taiwan. i mean, they look spontaneous. it looks like all of a sudden people are rushing up to the front and there's this big mosh

pit and then up on the top of the dais there's a big scrum. it looks like somebody just lost his temper and went nuts. but almost always it's actually planned in advance. >> here you have very dedicated brawlers. they planned ahead. they've got placards, they've got costumes. >> they wear a special outfit on the days that they're going to fight. once i was interviewing a legislative assistant about this. he said, oh, yeah, we get a memo. we get an e-mail in the morning that says tell the boss to wear sneakers and the party vest today because we're going to have some action. >> planned or not, these brawls often turn violent and injuries can be serious. >> the most famous is the bloody face of the guy who got hit with a cell phone on his brow bone and split his eyebrow and blood all down his face. he had ten large stitches and a hundred small stitches. so it must have been a pretty nasty cut.

>> and there have been other casualties during intense legislative sessions, namely ruined suits. >> another very shocking but also kind of funny moment was the fight where they threw their boxed lunches at each other. >> this clip gives a whole new meaning to a sticky situation. >> this is what happens when you serve lunch during a meeting. >> there's rice in there, there's stir-fried vegetables in there. there's like a pork chop or a chicken leg. so when they hauled off and threw the boxes across the legislature, the food was just flying out and all of this greasy chinese food raining down on the legislators. >> so why are fights so common in taiwan? what is it about the country's political system that breeds such frustration? >> i think the key to understanding the political violence or particularly the legislative violence in taiwan is to understand that taiwan is a relatively new democracy.

until the 1980s, taiwan was a single-party authoritarian state. >> in the 1980s, taiwan begins to democratize. however, when marshal law is abolished in 1987, political brawls go on the rise. in addition, taiwan's ruling political party remains the minority in the legislature. >> they still couldn't get their stuff through the legislature because they didn't have a majority of seats. so it's like when you have a republican president and a democratic majority in the u.s. congress. there's always a lot more conflict. >> so is there any hope that taiwan will be able to stabilize its political system in the near future, rendering these fights a thing of the past? >> i'm pretty confident that taiwan will develop some mechanisms for smoothing over the worst and most violent of these legislative conflicts. >> but until then, grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show. and you don't have to look far

from taiwan to find more political punch-outs. >> if you want to be a politician in korea, a black belt in tae kwon do may not be a bad thing to have. >> fights are so common in south korea's parliament that they've become a spectator sport. >> this looks like a coup. i don't know if i'd want them in charge. >> there has been a ritual aspect to confrontation in korean society. one of the challenges with korea as a relatively new democracy is that this is not really a political culture in which debate and compromise are prized. >> since 2004 the south korean parliament has dissolved numerous times into uncontrolled mass brawls. >> 2004 was a year in which we saw major change in the composition of the national assembly. it became younger. there was the introduction of a new labor party. and they brought with them the street protest tradition, to a certain extent they brought the

street into the national assembly. >> whether the subject is education reform or impeachment, free trade deals or government relocation, you can be sure that fists will be raised and punches will be thrown. >> a lot of pushing and shoving, a lot of competition to really gain control over the physical instruments of power, for instance, the speaker's podium or the gavel. hammers and fire extinguishers. there were draft bills being thrown. there were cameras in the national assembly. paper actually makes a good theatrical effect. >> and theater is really all it is. unlike in taiwan where political brawling often sways an outcome, scott snyder at the asia foundation says the punchups we see in the korea assembly are all for show. >> usually they are related to ritual confrontations or situations where a measure or a law is about to be passed.

the assemblymen already know what the outcome is going to be, but they need to show to their constituents that they have done everything they can in order to try to stop it from being passed. it's a ritual fight to show your loyalty even for a lost cause. >> well, guys, even if you're not changing history, you sure are getting a good workout. coming up -- uh-oh, look out. mikes and paperweights fly through the air in india. >> mikes and paperweights have become like missiles. >> plus somalis fight over whether to allow peace-keeping forces into their country. >> the ultimate irony of this one is this was a fight about peacekeepers. >> it was quite dangerous because of the way they were using chairs and sticks. i mean, someone could have gotten killed. when "caught on camera," politics gone wild returns. i get my healthy bowl of beneful, and she eats

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hi. richard louie. police just holding a news conference with the latest on

the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy in houston, the deputy ambushed and shot several times at a gas station last night. police asking anyone with information to come forward. surveillance shows other customers at the gas station at the time of the shooting. investigators do not have any motive for the shooting and no arrests have been made. we'll keep an eye on that one. stay with us. right now back to our programming. hello. welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. whether they're lashing out in public, fighting one on one, or brawling en masse, politicians sure know how to disagree with each other. uttar pradesh, india, october, 1997. the state assembly erupts into violence. this director is a political

adviser, and he has a ringside seat at the spectacular event. >> it was expected that there may be some shouting slogans, some throwing of something. but physical manhandling and physically throwing of objects to the extent of injuring the other persons, it was not expected. >> the ruling bjp party in power for only one month is suddenly in danger of losing its majority. >> the issue was a vote of confidence for the state government. >> if this was a vote for confidence, it didn't succeed. i can imagine the voters not having much confidence in these guys. >> when state assembly members are called on to vote whether to replace the bjp party, things get ugly. >> as soon as the proceedings started and the shouting becomes noisy -- >> uh-oh. now they're throwing things, furniture, everything. >> it initially started with the

paper weights. then the mikes are taken from the desks and thrown to the other side, and they're quite heavy. mics and paper weights have become like missiles. >> they look like they could do some damage. now, there's some nice form on that toss. >> as the scene descends from disruption into total disarray, those caught up in the fray take cover. >> the scene has become very violent, even physical, manhandling. >> undeterred by the chaos around him, the speaker carries on. he's determined that the vote proceed and be counted that day. >> so the marshals try to intervene. they try to make a shield around the speaker to save him because the speaker was going on with the proceedings. >> my favorite was the security guards holding up what appeared to be chair seats or something as a shield. >> the shield does the trick. the speaker is able to push the vote through and the bjp party, it seems, will be allowed to stay in power.

the trouble-making opposition parties, however, won't give up. that afternoon they storm the governor's house, and the governor intervenes on their behalf, dismissing the state government altogether. but the bjp party takes its case to the president. >> it was very unusual. up till now, nothing of this sort has happened in an indian parliament. >> in the end, the president supports the bjp party and gives the power back to it. >> in technical terms, bjp and its allies emerged winners. >> since 1997 violent outbursts in the state assembly have become rare, perhaps in part due to some redecorating. >> mikes and rods were removed. paperweights were removed. anything which can be thrown was not allowed on the desk. now take a look at what happened at a somali political summit in 2005.

>> it confirmed all of our worst fears about the transitional parliament and the transitional federal government, that this was an utterly dysfunctional group. >> the fight starts when somali politicians disagree about allowing peacekeeping troops into their troubled country. >> the ultimate irony of this one was this was a fight about peacekeepers. >> somalia is the longest running incident of state collapse in the post colonial era. >> the somali people have gone without a functional government since 1991, and many aren't willing to let peacekeepers try to stabilize the situation. >> somalia has a bad history with international peacekeeping. the u.n. operation in somalia in 1993 through '95 led to the black hawk down disaster in which 18 army rangers lost their lives and many hundreds of somalis as well. so there's a history to international peacekeeping in somalia which makes many somalians leery of it. >> on top of it, somalia's hotly contested transitional government has only just been formed. >> a parliament is not a routine thing in somalia.

that's part of the problem. this is a country that had 20 years of dictatorship from the 1970s and 1980s, and had no real culture of parliamentary debate and dialogue. and then 20 years of state collapse. so we're really dealing with somali political figures that have no history, no culture of the give and take of parliamentary debate. >> there's a guy in this one just whaling on somebody with a cane, intending to do some real harm. >> i've seen more effective fighting in other places. this was really haphazard, but it was quite dangerous because of the way they were using chairs and sticks. i mean, someone could have gotten killed. >> peacekeepers are eventually allowed into somalia in 2007. and as a result, fighting among somali insurgents increases. >> we've got a very serious political crisis on our hand, and it has triggered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. 3.8 million somalis are in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. 1.8 million are internally

displaced because of the fighting. u.n. considers somalia the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. >> sadly, this scene from 2005 mirror, on a much smaller scale, the struggle that occurs every day in somalia. >> the short-term future of the country is very, very troubled. we're not going to see the fighting go away very soon. in the long term i have confidence that the somali people will pull themselves together. i think the somalis will have an interest in seeing a revived state and a consolidated peace. coming up -- one political brawl gets really out of hand. >> somebody is saying that he was dead. >> nothing is under control. just violence. just rage. and then the political bloopers you just can't get enough of. >> one of the most embarrassing moments for any politician i've seen.

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as we've seen, political brawls have produced ruffled hair, damaged suits, even a few cuts and bruises, but one country tips the scales for a truly shocking injury caught on camera. >> i think when it ends in a coma, something needs to be done. this shouldn't happen anymore. >> the bolivian congress has seen a lot of action in the past several years. >> bolivian politics is one of the most conflicted, aggressive in the world. >> in fact, bolivia only became a democracy in the '80s after

years of military rule, and then a string of governments, infamous for human rights abuses, narcotics trafficking, and economic corruption. but some say the word "democracy" should be used lightly when it comes to bolivia. >> what this violent fight says about the political system in bolivia, it's a system of failure. violence, it's the consequence of the lack of real democracy. we have elections. we have a congress. we have democratic representatives that have been elected. but somehow all of the problems that are beneath bolivian society have been erosion in a violent way, it becomes scary. nothing is under control. just violence. just rage. >> one famous instance of

violent rage happens in september 2006. >> it was really, really a terrible fight. it was really, really a tense situation. >> jose au, qipa is a former member of the minority party in bolivia. he's there that evening. >> that night i remember the president in the assembly was leading the session. >> he calls for all constitutional reforms to be passed by a simple majority. jose's party reacts angrily knowing they will have no say in these reforms. >> i recall that we took to the session small plastic bottles, and we started hitting the bottles and making noise and yelling "dictatorship, dictatorship" so that they could stop the session. >> words are not enough to stop the proceedings. >> you see people standing on desks yelling at each other. women throwing paper.

and, of course, men fighting with their hands, you know, punching each other. like it was a ring. >> as jose and his party are doing battle on the floor, a man named roman, a prominent member of the ruling party, loses his footing and falls from a ledge. >> suddenly he slipped and fell. he was lying down, and his head was bleeding. and somebody screamed, saying that he was dead. >> he is rushed to the hospital. his life hanging in the balance. >> people started crying. women started yelling. and some of the female members of the government started attacking us, accusing us, saying that we pushed roman loiza. >> people that belongs to the government said it was on purpose. and a terrible fight also

started. >> you can see jose in the middle of the melee being beaten from behind. >> that night was like a nightmare. all our fears started becoming true. we were attacked. we were hit. i felt a couple of punches on my head from the back. i almost fainted. >> scared for his life, jose and the rest of the opposition party flee. >> we managed to get out of the theater and run away, literally run away. >> jose runs home and remains there for several hours until he gets a startling phone call warning him that angry members of roman loiza's party are after him. >> so i decided to move to another place and then take us immediately at night and move to another city to stay safe.

>> the lives of jose and other members of his party depend on loiza's full recovery. they remain in hiding waiting for news of his condition. >> mr. loiza was in coma for quite a few days. we were all concerned about his health, no doubt about it. we would have ended up being lynched if mr. loiza had not recovered. >> two months later loiza recovers and returns to the assembly. >> he came back as a different person. he was not man of confrontation anymore. he summoned us for a reconciliation, and he provoked one of the most touching, sensitive moments of the constitutional assembly. we applauded him, we thanked him, and we held each other, members of the opposition and members of the government. some people even cried. >> the incident with mr. loiza

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going wild seems to be an ongoing theme in the political arena, but fighting isn't the only thing caught on camera. sometimes they trade wild for just plain embarrassing. >> there's a rule for politicians that even if the camera is not on them, if there's a camera in the room, always assume you're on the air.

>> take the mayor of london, boris johnson, for instance. encouraging volunteers to help clean up london's rivers, boris sets the example and takes the plunge, literally. >> i'm here to promote volunteering week. what could be more lovely on a day like this than having a quick informal dip. >> informal? that's one word for it. >> getting ready. >> and who can forget presidential hopeful gary bauers pancake stunt. >> all right. whoa! oh, no! >> there's a tradition in new hampshire presidential politics where candidates have to flip pancakes at a pancake breakfast. >> oh, no! >> you compare and contrast the politician's skill at flipping pancakes at this event. gary bauer was the worst ever. >> jack be nimble, jack be quick, whoa, jack fall over the bisquick. >> one of the most embarrassing moments for any politician i've seen.

>> i hope your campaign platform is more solid than your footing, mr. bauer. that goes for you too, mr. dole. campaigning against president bill clinton turns out to be a dangerous affair for bob dole. reaching out to his supporters in california, he falls head first off stage. it turns out that the presidency is just beyond his reach. and speaking of feet, waiting around for dignitaries can be tedious work. president bush takes the opportunity to entertain the press with some fancy footwork of his own. >> i don't know of any times when it's really good for a president to try to dance. >> president bush, it seems, disagrees. here he is again in africa. >> and secretary of state hillary clinton gets down in kenya. >> thank you very much. stop the music.

>> even russian president boris yeltsin seems comfortable on the dance floor. >> kick it. >> not all politicians are quite so musically inclined however. just ask karl rove. ♪ tell me what is your name >> mc rove. >> i saw this one live, i'm afraid. it was even scarier to watch karl rove rapping in person than on the tv. he's got some of the movements that only dick cheney could manage. >> mc rove. ♪ our dnc is what they're calling me ♪ >> colin powell is equally musically challenged. here he is singing at a security meeting in indonesia. and bad boy blagojevich is caught on camera taking on elvis. ♪

>> yikes. don't quit your day jobs, fellas. oh, wait, never mind. perhaps they should have made a speedy escape like president bush tried to do after this press conference. >> this was one of the famous episodes with george bush looking like he didn't know what he was doing because he didn't even know where the door was. >> i was trying to escape. >> and talk about wanting to escape, who can forget vice president dan quayle exercising his spelling expertise in front of the cameras. >> add one little bit on the end. potato. you wrote phonetically. what else? there you go. >> i wouldn't try your luck at, are you smarter than a fifth grader, dan. >> i guess he was wrong and i was right. >> and speaking of a gaffe with an "e" on the end, here's a

technical one. >> and you're in my way of my script, there, if you will move. >> and don't you just hate those meetings that go on and on and on? president ronald reagan certainly did. just before leaving office, president reagan jokes about his frequent public snoozes. as soon as i get home to california, i plan to lean back, kick up my feet and take a long nap. come to think of it, things won't be all that different after all. >> and speaking of snoozing, i bet president bill clinton wishes this baby was napping and hadn't just eaten before he picked her up at a rally. >> threw up a little bit. >> that's good luck. >> no matter how embarrassing the bloopers or how wild the fights, one thing is for sure, there will always be more. after all, that's politics. if you have a video you'd like to send to us, logon to our website caught on camera@msnbc.com.

i'm contessa brewer. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera l)/ criminals are everywhere, but so are cameras, watching their every move. >> i ripped his hat off, pulled the mask off his face. >> recording antics that will stun you. >> there were four guys in here. >> catching crimes that range from cold-blooded -- >> it was very brutal. >> to ridiculous. >> the subject was described as being dressed like a tree. >> they had garbage bags on their heads. they had these eyeholes torn